Italian referendum

Hi all, this is my first post of this new website. It’s also the first multilanguage post we’ve ever hosted!

On June the 1st, 2011 the italian Supreme Court of Cassation accepted the abrogative referendum that is going to be held on the next 12th and 13th of June. The questions are the following: the construction of nuclear plants inside the italian territory, the privatisation of water services and the immunity of the PM from prosecution. These are very important topics for the future of our country.

Anyway, this post is not about how do you have to vote. If you decide for the YES or for the NO is only a matter of your personal choice! This is about the vote in itself and its power as a democratic instrument. Italians, get up and vote!

Well, since we’re a heavy metal band, here is a music suggestion about this topic: it’s one of my favourite bands’ album, back from 1998. “One Hour by the Concrete Lake” by Pain of Salvation. It seems this is Mr. Gildenlöw less favourite album, but I’m very fond with it because it’s the first PoS cd I’ve ever listened to. Just like all their works, it’s a concept album, and inside it you can find themes like water inequality between the world’s north and south, firearm industry, nuclear power and pollution. The title is referred to Lake Karachay, in western Russia. There, so much nuclear waste had been dumped over the past fifty years that if one stood by the shore for one hour, the exposure to radiation would be such that death from physical injuries would inevitably occur within two weeks.